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Assembly Bill A5359

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Establishes a training wage equal to eighty-five percent of the state minimum wage or federal minimum wage

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2013-A5359 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง652, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2863
2011-2012: A6528
2015-2016: A4384
2017-2018: A4339
2019-2020: A988
2021-2022: A4829
2023-2024: A5594
2025-2026: A5731

2013-A5359 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a training wage equal to eighty-five percent of the state minimum wage or federal minimum wage, whichever is greater, that may be paid to a youth who has no prior job experience; provides that no youth may be paid a training wage for more than one hundred eighty days.

2013-A5359 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5359

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 25, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. KOLB, CORWIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  CROUCH, JORDAN, P. LOPEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on
  Labor

AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to  establishing  a  training
  wage

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 652 of the labor law is amended  by  adding  a  new
subdivision 6 to read as follows:
  6.  TRAINING WAGE. A TRAINING WAGE EQUAL TO EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE
STATE MINIMUM WAGE OR THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE,  WHICHEVER  IS  GREATER,
MAY  BE PAID TO A YOUTH WHO HAS NO PRIOR JOB EXPERIENCE. FOR THE PURPOSE
OF THIS SUBDIVISION, YOUTH IS DEFINED  AS  A  PERSON  WHO  HAS  NOT  YET
REACHED  THE  AGE  OF  EIGHTEEN  AND  PRIOR JOB EXPERIENCE IS DEFINED AS
EMPLOYMENT WHERE AN EMPLOYEE WOULD HAVE BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR ON AN EMPLOY-
ER'S PAYROLL RECORDS. NO YOUTH WILL BE PAID A  TRAINING  WAGE  FOR  MORE
THAN  ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS. EMPLOYERS ARE LIMITED TO NO MORE THAN SIX
EMPLOYEES RECEIVING A TRAINING WAGE AT ANY ONE PARTICULAR LOCATION.   AT
NO  TIME  WILL  A YOUTH RECEIVING A TRAINING WAGE BE USED TO DISPLACE AN
EMPLOYEE WHO IS RECEIVING A WAGE EQUAL TO  OR  GREATER  THAN  THE  STATE
MINIMUM WAGE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09189-01-3

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